DevOps – It’s all about experiments

‚The Phoenix Project‘ is a must read for all DevOps practitioners. It describes the main principles of DevOps culture as ‚three ways‘. The third way is about creating a culture of continual experimentation. I’ll take you on a journey through Agile and DevOps, product development and organizational development. We’ll discover all the small places in this culture where the principle of experimentation is hidden. Some of them may surprise you.

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1. DevOps
   It’s all about experiments
   Konstantin Diener | cosee GmbH
   konstantin.diener@cosee.biz | @onkelkodi
   

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2. KONSTANTIN DIENER
   CTO and Founder of cosee
   

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3. The Phoenix Project
   Gene Kim, Kevin Behr,
   George Spafford
   

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4. „The Third Way is about
   creating a culture
   that fosters two things:
   continual experimentation,
   which requires taking risks and learning
   from success and failure, and
   understanding that repetition and
   practice is the prerequisite to mastery.
   The Phoenix Project
   

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5. But why experiments?
   

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7. Outcome over Output
   

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9. Product Development
   

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10. User Story Mapping
    Jeff Patton
    

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11. Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping, https://jpattonassociates.com/
    

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12. Do you always have the right ideas?
    

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13. No!
    

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14. 60% - 90% of ideas do not have a
    positive impact …
    

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15. … based on experiments at
    Microsoft
    

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16. But …
    

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17. If our product is based on
    hypotheses, …
    

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18. … our User Stories can’t be
    requirements!
    

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19. User Story =
    Hypothesis + Experiment
    

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21. Experimenting means Measuring
    

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23. Measure outcomes in production
    

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24. Continuous Delivery
    

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25. Business Metrics
    

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26. small experiments hard job
    

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27. Lean Experimentation
    in Action
    Kylie Castellaw, Maryam Aidini
    

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29. Organizational Development
    

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30. Experimentation and risk taking are what
    enable us to
    relentlessly improve our
    system of work,
    which often requires us to do things very
    differently than how we’ve done it for
    decades.
    The Phoenix Project
    

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33. Best Practices
    

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34. Kent Beck
    Spotify didn’t implement the Spotify model by copying
    Spotify. Why do folks at other companies think they can
    implement the Spotify model by copying Spotify?
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36. Is there a problem for our solution?
    

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38. Goal to problem is connected to
    Hypothesis
    
    Experiment - What’s the minimum we could try to proof our hypothesis?
    • Measurement 1
    • Measurement 2
    

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39. How to gather topics for your Org
    task board?
    

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40. Retrospectives
    

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41. Person Team Organisation
    • 1 on 1
    • Jour Fixe
    • Personal
    Retrospective
    • Sprint Retro
    • Release Retro
    • Postmortem
    

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42. Successful cross-functional teams
    Goal
    Missing cross cutting link for „developer species“
    Hypothesis
    Backend Developers felt disconnected from each other
    Try Community of Practice for Backend Developers
    Experiment
    • each Developer knows at least two peers he can ask for help.
    How to measure
    

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43. Scaling Lean & Agile
    Development
    Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
    

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44. Try …
    … Cultivating Communities of Practice
    … Use CoPs for functional learning
    

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45. Disclaimer on experiments
    

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47. Ester Derby
    Ppl seem to think about adding processes, policies,
    procedures…
    but not retiring any of them.
    Sort of like always buying new clothes, without ever clearing
    out the closet of stuff that now longer works or fits.
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48. Dispose experiments!
    

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49. If your journey is an
    easy one, it is a trap.
    @KNeferhetep
    

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    konstantin.diener@cosee.biz | @onkelkodi
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